Pitch or Ditch for Saturday-Monday, August 28-30

Pitch
or Ditch is a strategy for (ideally) daily mixed leagues in which you
pick up
starters on a day-to-day basis based on how well they are pitching and
their
upcoming matchups, then cut them in favor of new guys the next day. The
concept
is that the shallower the league, the more quality starting pitching is
available on the free agent wire, so rather than drafting expensive
starters,
it’s better to build a strong offense and bullpen and let the free agent
wire
populate your starting staff during the season. As a bonus, a handful of
“PoD”
guys emerge each year as worth keeping all year long, like Jair Jurrjens
last
year or Cliff Lee in ’08.__________________________________________________________________________________

Why don’t u trust Carlos Zambrano? He hasn’t give up more than two earned runs in his four starts since coming back from “anger disease”. He has a 2.67 ERA in August AND it’s the Pirates! They are 29th in team batting average in the last 30 days, only one point above the M’s. In this span they have a MLB-worst 62/224 BB to K-ratio. That’s ugly.

That being said: Sounds like a good matchup to me for a guy desperate to get the love back he was used to in all fantasy formats. I’m starting him.

Don’t even think about dropping Broxton. I know it’s frustrating to hold onto a guy who isn’t picking up saves but I can see him returning to the closer role sooner rather than later. Let’s not forget that he was arguably the #1 RP in fantasy heading into this season…not waiver wire material at all.

I’m fine with you dropping the erratic Beckett in order to pick up Scherzer and would strongly consider adding Chris Perez for Lackey.

As for Hart, he’s very streaky but I like his chances of putting together a strong finish, though the opportunity to sell high on him is probably over.
********************************************
Adrien,

I’m a little higher on Big Z than Cory is, so in my view throwing him out there vs. PIT is a decent gamble…but only if you have enough innings to spare and you’re chasing wins and Ks.

Meta

The following are trademarks or service marks of Major League Baseball entities and may be used only with permission of Major League Baseball Properties, Inc. or the relevant Major League Baseball entity: Major League, Major League Baseball, MLB, the silhouetted batter logo, World Series, National League, American League, Division Series, League Championship Series, All-Star Game, and the names, nicknames, logos, uniform designs, color combinations, and slogans designating the Major League Baseball clubs and entities, and their respective mascots, events and exhibitions.